The Map Print
Bath, drawn from its own streets.
The only British city whose street plan includes a circle and a crescent drawn deliberately, and both of them survive on the map exactly as they were set out.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · Needs: a place. No data.
The frame 5 km across at the default · The water the Avon · Where England, the United Kingdom · Position 51.3814° N · 2.3597° W
Bath on paper
The Georgian set pieces do the work here. The Circus prints as a true ring of building with three streets leaving it at even angles; the Royal Crescent is a long arc facing open ground; and Lansdown Crescent repeats the idea higher up the slope. Between and below them the terraces run along the contours in long curves, because the ground rises steeply on both sides of the river and the builders followed it. The print draws none of that height, so what you see is a set of parallel arcs that only make sense once you know they are steps up a hillside.
The Avon loops through the middle, with the weir below the bridge and the canal joining from the south-east at Widcombe, where the locks step up in a tight chain. The railway crosses the valley on viaducts and runs beside the river, so the bottom of the frame carries three roughly parallel lines — water, canal and rail — with the streets threading between them.
In the centre the medieval core is still legible: short lanes around the abbey and the baths, hemmed in by the Georgian blocks that were laid out around them. Five kilometres across holds the crescents, the centre, the river, the canal and the inner suburbs. Take it in to a kilometre and a half and the crescents alone fill the sheet, which makes the most graphic small print of any city on this list.
What to frame
Each of these opens the Studio already framed on it. Move the frame, change how wide it reaches, and choose how the streets are drawn.
The city
5 km acrossthe crescents and the circus, the river's loop, the canal and the railway below.
Widcombe
3.2 km acrossthe locks stepping up from the river, the terraces above them and the canal beyond.
Bathwick
3.2 km acrossthe streets east of the river, the pleasure grounds and the bridge into the centre.
Larkhall
3.2 km acrossthe village streets north-east, the terraces and the open ground behind them.
Twerton
3.2 km acrossthe west end of the city, the river and the railway running side by side.
Twerton to Bathwick
both ends namedthe length of the valley, both ends named where they sit.
A postcode
BA1 or BA2 in the Studio frames that patch alone.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.
Step 01
Choose your subject
Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.
Step 02
Choose your style
Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.
Step 03
We print and frame it
Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.
Bath map print: the questions
Do the Circus and the Royal Crescent read clearly?
They are the clearest things on the print. Both are streets rather than buildings, so the map holds their shapes exactly: a closed ring with three exits, and an arc with the open ground in front of it.
Which size suits Bath?
A3 is enough at the city frame, because the place is small and the shapes are strong. A2 suits it if you want the crescents at the size they deserve.
Can I include the hills around it?
At about twelve kilometres across the frame takes in the surrounding ridges and villages. The streets in the centre become fine at that width, so the crescents stop being the subject.
Where does the map come from?
OpenStreetMap, through OpenFreeMap’s vector tiles — the same data the race prints draw. Nothing is invented: if a street is missing it is missing from the map, and anyone can add it at openstreetmap.org.
Can I print somewhere near Bath instead?
Yes — anywhere on earth. Search the Studio for a town, a village or a postcode and the frame arrives at the size that place wants; the slider and the drag take it from there.
- Made to orderPrinted for you, never from stock
- Fine-art paperArchival inks, framed by hand
- Tracked deliveryUK delivery £7.85, tracked · worldwide, priced at checkout
- Arrives damaged?We replace it, no quibble
Your Bath, on the wall.
Compose it free in the Studio. Order it when it holds the streets you mean.
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